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Friday March 9, 2001

DAN With the perceived need to end hunger, coupled with the perceived intention to focus and motivate toward making external changes, hunger continues.

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, Mar 10, 2001

DAN

With the perceived need to end hunger,
coupled with the perceived intention to focus
and motivate toward making external changes, hunger
continues.Grandiose schemes with benevolent sounding names,
promoting a false sense of responsibility by one who wants
prominence as a leader -- the world abounds with these.This
concept that nonduality is a concept that can be promoted by an
institution -- where did that get started?

Any comments on this, please?

"Yogananda
said that without continued mastery of the remaining aspects of the ego, the
soul loses its degree of realization, much as an athlete loses his/her skill
without continued practice. For the soul that has had glimpses of its
oneness with God, he prescribed deeper meditation, unflinching
self-discipline and mastery of one's thoughts and feelings. Through repeated
contact of the soul with God through spiritual practice, he said, the soul
could stay anchored in what he termed "Final Realization," whether in
meditation or in
activity."

____________________________|
Lots of
love,
||
Cyber
Dervish

See the ego for what it is.It's the
thought that functions as a wrapperaround every thought and feeling.It's
like your skin.The healthy ego is porous.

andrew

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The only finality is openness
without beginning.

Whatever ends had a beginning;
whatever can be lost, was gained.

Anything that can be
validated, can and will be invalidated.

What never began,
won't end.What never got started has no opposition.What
never received validation never will be invalid.

Lose
anything that can be lost.What is left, never began.This is "your true
self-nature" or "Godhead without God, you, or
me".

What can never be gained is what was never lost;
what was imagined as something that could have
been forgotten never needed to be remembered.

Contact can
be gained and lost.Anything that can be contacted is
transient, as is the one who can make the
contact.

Whatever can be maintained, repeated, or
anchored, can and will be lost -- is not "true
nature".

Peace,Dan

Only
Sounds Like Yesterday

Friday.

Overcast.

Sleet.

Touch of a
sniffle.

And, flannel.

Who defines anything?

I
do.

Wisdom is not theWay.

Wisdom is a path 'that is in
theWay'.

There is no "Hey, hey you! Quit hogging the wisdom you
fool".

Like there is such a thing.

As a thing that
is...

Jesus Christ

~Doc Hobbes--Shaking off the
snowa bear and two opened eyesspoke to the sky.--TeCha

Reverse Satsang and Stuff

Hello NDS,

The last few days I've had an
opportunity to look at the world and people of nonduality from unique
perspectives. I'll write in further detail in the near future.

There
really is none of those things, except as I create them. All one can do is
live in the present, yet there are always time's tentacles that pull one
into the past or toward the future. Only the fresh and alive one receives
the standing ovation. At Inner Directions that was Adyashanti, a young
teacher who sparkled in the moment. A person has to fight for his place in
the present.

I woke up this morning thinking that satsang in the western
world needs to be upset a little. I recommend reverse satsang. That's where
the satsang guy is required to ask the devotee\student questions. A
little reverse Satsang might be a good thing.

A good man who handles
all the Satsang schedules for a large city, asked me what I do when someone
asks to be on my website and they're not quite nondual. I said I make room
for them. Apparently he has been refusing to place certain teachers on his
Satsang schedule for reasons which do have validity. He's not in an easy
position. But I hope he can find room for them. Every attempt should be made
to be all-inclusive.

I know that Dustin has enjoyed the responses to
his letters. What can one say about breaking through to the next level of
awareness? Certainly in this very instant the doorway exists. There are
nothing but doorways. An absolute nothing-move is required to move through
infinity.

This is all for now. Stay fresh, young and beautiful as you
all are.

Love,Jerry

Thanks, Jerry. Reversing satsang has a lovely appeal to it. I was going
to post something about illusion. Your post reminded me of something I asked
you at the retreat and your gentle response.

I asked what criteria you
use to determine what you put on the NDS website. You gently smiled and said
something to the effect that people need a space to just be. No, that wasn't
the exact question, nor was it the exact answer. Matters not. What came
through was the great gentleness of just being and accepting.

Well,
today I am preparing to move to Las Vegas. There is a big illusory U-Haul
parked outside the house that sits in the middle of nowhere. Hooked to the
truck is an illusory red convertible. Soon the truck will be loaded with
phantom boxes packed full of transitory stuff. The larger boxes contain the
lightest things. The smaller boxes the heavier things.

When and if
noon tomorrow becomes this very moment, I will be saying goodbye to dear
friends at a small gathering. With joy and love I shall hug and kiss them.
It will not be goodbye - they are in my heart and shall remain there
forever.

~ ~ ~ ~ ~

Thoughts come and goFeelings arise and
passBirth and death endlessly cycleIn this there is
understanding

No wrong and no rightGod is not in heavenMan is not
in hellHere and now is the song of being

~ ~ ~ ~ ~

Every tear
that is shed falls from the face of God.Rejoice in this day for it is
good!

Peace - Michael

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What does it mean to learn
the knowledge of God's
Unity? To consume yourself in
the presence of the One. If
you wish to shine like day, burn
up the night of self-existence.
Dissolve in the Being who is
everything. You grabbed hold of
"I" and "we," and this dualism is
your
ruin.

- Rumi

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Version by Camille and
Kabir Helminski"Rumi: Daylight"Threshold Books, 1994

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